A bit of legacy-buffing for McCain, some deeply pernicious pro-war talking points, and a few chuckles between two old friends.
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Elizabeth Warren: Why I’m Co-Sponsoring Bernie’s Medicare for All Bill
Health care is a basic human right – and it’s time to fight for it. Please join me in signing on as a citizen co-sponsor of Medicare for All.
How Did Workers Win the Right to Form a Union and Go on Strike?
When unions are busted and removed from the bargaining table, both the union worker and the nonunion employee suffer.
Donald Trump Hides Behind the Storm, Hurricane Harvey
As Hurricane Harvey raged on, President Donald Trump tried to use the disaster as cover. It might have worked. And that is sad.
How Conservatives Manipulated the Mainstream Media to Give Us President Trump
A new report shows how conservatives are winning a war that the rest of us don’t even know we’re fighting.
Arpaio Pardon May Be Opening Act of a Constitutional Crisis
Trump’s move Friday night shows the same disregard of the rule of law with which he’s trying to quash the Russia probe.
Dear Fellow Lefties: Know Who the Real Enemy Is
United fronts aren’t about unity. They’re about survival. We have a lot of wounds to heal if we’re going to act in solidarity against what’s killing us.
Trump’s going into war overdrive to get his poll numbers up
Bush achieved the highest poll numbers of any president in history save for his son’s post 9-11 record, his popularity. Trump’s will too.
The ACA Had Just Begun to Fix Rural America’s Health Care Inequality
The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 began to change this as more rural Americans gained insurance coverage and rural hospitals strived.
Progressives Explain Why Centrist Tech Billionaires Won’t Save the Democrats
The newly launched Win the Future initiative has been panned as just another “centrist push” by self-interested billionaires.
Activist News
While Trump Dominates News, Wall Street Quietly Pillages The World (VIDEO)
Wall Street is giddy whenever Trump does something stupid — which is a daily occurrence — because it distracts the rest of us from their pillage.
Our Entire Economy Is Based On A Massive LIE That Is Killing People (VIDEO)
Lee Camp used his Redacted Tonight show to point out an inconsistency in free market capitalism as defined vs. the reality of its implementation.
Lee Camp: Billionaire CEO Accidentally Reveals Truth About Trump’s Cabinet (VIDEO)
On Fox Business Channel the other day a billionaire CEO slipped up and revealed the truth about Trump’s cabinet. Here’s my take on what was revealed.
Journalists Illegally Arrested At North Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protests (VIDEO)
Journalists – as well as actress Shailene Woodley – have been arrested in North Dakota, and some are facing 45 years in prison.
A concern for us all – The End of Food As We Know It without bees? (VIDEO)
One of every three bites of food eaten worldwide depends on pollinators – especially bees. So why are we so flippant about bee die-off?
Mathematical PROOF Big Bankers Knew 2008 Collapse Was Coming! (VIDEO)
Even though the big bankers have always claimed they had no idea the 2008 financial crisis was on the horizon, new proof suggests otherwise!
The truth behind the debates that very few know about (VIDEO)
The Truth Behind the Rigged Debates: Ever feel like you’re watching two heads of the same beast go at it in a rigged charade? Well, that’s because you are.
DNC Lawyers Basically Admit Primary Election Was Rigged (VIDEO)
Lee Camp covers the latest news about the lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee (DNC). He covers the crucial issues missing from the debate.
How to Spot a White Supremacist – Alt-Right (VIDEO)
Neo-fascists and White Supremacists want to be called Alt-Right. There is a humongous problem with that characterization that one must heed.
Columnists
Vox Hedges Headline in Fit of Single-Payer Skepticism
A perfect illustration of how difficult the single-payer battle is going to be given the ‘Liberal ‘Media’s’ complicity in maligning it.
90 Companies Helped Cause the Climate Crisis – They Should Pay for It
The companies responsible for the climate crisis should cover the costs of fighting wildfires and recovering from hurricanes.
Murdoch-Owned Media’s Radical Climate Denial in the Face of Disaster
Wall Street Journal’s glib snark over Hurricane Harvey completes its Fox News-ification, climate change denial codified in conservative media.
Corporate Media’s Soft Spot for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner
Protecting their reputations so Ivanka and Jared can survive the Trump administration’s already toxic legacy is really what’s going on.
The Great Flood
Chris Hedges gives a grim assessment of where our civilization is heading in context of the Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma.
The Sickness of American Health care – Media distorts real problem
Media fixation on a small fraction of America’s patients distorts health care system’s real problems that need addressing.
Factchecking the Factcheckers including those that lean left
The ACA has failed to control costs so to tell readers otherwise comes across less as factchecking than as a partisan defense of the ACA.
No, Obamacare Has Not Reduced Premium Inflation
Many insist that the rate at which employer-sponsored premiums have grown has slowed dramatically since passage of the Obamacare. It’s not true.
Meet human needs? Nah, let’s play tea party games
The Tea Party cancer so permeates some on the Right-Wing fringe that even a natural catastrophe is not enough to shake them completely loose of the scourge.
Boomtown, Flood Town
Climate change will bring more frequent and fierce rainstorms to cities like Houston. Unchecked development remains a priority in the famously un-zoned city
Guest Bloggers
A message from one of many Millennials to the Democratic Party
It is time to put the 2016 election in the past and unite the Democratic Party for the fight ahead. This thoughtful Millennial is ready as are many others.
At Sea with Capt. ‘Wrong Way’ Trump
A rudderless ship of state creates chaos and erratically steers us into a feckless foreign policy. We got this obvious result for electing a toddler.
AirBnB Host Refuses To Rent To Asian Woman: “It’s Why We Have Trump.” (VIDEO)
Another Trump supporter, an Airbnb Host, feeling perfectly comfortable being a nasty racist and using the election of Donald Trump as an excuse for it.
Indivisible: A Social Action Startup for Democracy
Imagine these Indivisible groups as cells in a vast progressive network that includes more than 6000 Indivisible chapters plus other orgs.
The Electoral College: a threat to our Republic. It must go, sooner than later (VIDEO)
History will likely show that Clinton won the popular vote by almost two million more votes than Trump votes while losing the election.
Explain why Democrats, after 8 years, should treat your party any differently than you treated ours
My hope is to help Hillary supporters process their feelings and also inform Trump supporters about what liberals are going through.
Bashing, intimidating huge swathes of the electorate is a bizarre get-out-the-vote strategy
Exercise your right to vote your values if only to spite those who would almost certainly take that right from you.
Just Say NO to Elizabeth Fagen by Patty Pinkley
Patty Pinkley did some digging on Humble ISD new Superintendent Elizabeth Fagen and what she continues to find maker Fagen a problem for the district.
Will Sanders Campaign Adequately Fund the Grassroots to Win Big in the West and Ensure Fair Elections?
Sanders supporters believe that Bernie’s key to winning Western States with more than 60% of the vote is to invest funds in grassroots efforts.
The Invisibility of U.S. Oligarchs: The Case of Penny Pritzker
If anyone doubts the power of the Oligarchy over the press, this story points out why Americans can never trust the media gatekeepers to inform.
Videocasts & Podcasts
Partisan Gridlock with Geoff Berg on KPFT – Guest Hosts Mike Honig and Egberto Willies
Mike Honig and Egberto Willies guest hosted on Partisan Gridlock with Geoff Berg. We discussed voter ID, Liberalism, Conservatism, and much more.
The Julianna Forlano Show – Guests Egberto Willies & Adam Weismann
On tonight’s episode on the Julianna Forlano Show we discuss the hope and the pain. They discuss the 2014 midterm elections and the TPP.
Politics Done Right on KPFT – America can afford Medicare for all
This week’s show July 7th, 2014 America can afford Medicare for all Last week while performing my engineering duties on KPFT’s Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig, a rather disturbing call came from a caller. The caller was not a bad person. The caller was not ill willed. The caller simply bought into the tenet that […]